05-20-2007, 03:37 AM
I have been trying to get the tube on water at least 3 times a week for the last couple of months. (On any water possible)
I have noticed that the bite has really picked up around here the last 2 weeks or so. A month ago I really had to work for a few here and there, lately I can barely keep the pole in the water long enough to take a sip from my iced tea before the pole starts to bend. I even had to go back to fishing a single pole at a time, because after a few doubles last week (and the line tangles that came with a couple of them) I decided to concede to my dads "you can't chew gum and walk at the same time" theory -- and just relax with one pole.
This evening was the pinnacle of my recent "hot streak" -- I hit the water at my local fishing hole at about 6:30 PM -- and before 7 PM I had hit 4 eater sized cats between 13-15 inches (I threw them back), and a couple cute little baby cats. After moving spots and swatting away a dozen or so Bluegill -- I finally ran into my first LMB of the night. He was not very big, only about 14 inches, but he put up a different kind of fight on my ultralight than did all of the cats that I have been into the last week or so....So that was a fun catch.
After playing around with a couple of more kitties and 1 more LMB -- all around 11-12 Inches...The sun had finally gone down enough for me to kick on over to my "secret" crappie hole. Within about 15 minutes I had pulled about 4 or 5 decent crappies between 10-12 inches and then 2 more respectable around 13, and the last at about 13 1/2 inches. About this time my daughter rode up on her bike and wonder what the bank tanglers were all converging around....She snapped a couple of these pictures and then went on her way.
Since the part of the lake I was on is only about 3 surface acres, I got a kick out of watching the bank tanglers try to move spots every five minutes as soon as I would vacate an area. A few of them must have thought I was using magic bait or something, because they yelling at me to ask what I was using.
The funny thing was, even though this is a live bait state, and the last few weeks I have been going through live minnows like crazy -- I had not planned on going fishing today, so I had not stopped and got any bait....The only thing I was using today was a package of stale "magic minnows" that I had purchased while I was in Utah a few months ago and a couple of tube jigs. Goes to prove that when the fish want to bite -- and you are in parts of a lake where nobody else can reach
that it really does not matter what bait you use.
Nice bonus trip this week -- I may try again tomorrow night.
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I have noticed that the bite has really picked up around here the last 2 weeks or so. A month ago I really had to work for a few here and there, lately I can barely keep the pole in the water long enough to take a sip from my iced tea before the pole starts to bend. I even had to go back to fishing a single pole at a time, because after a few doubles last week (and the line tangles that came with a couple of them) I decided to concede to my dads "you can't chew gum and walk at the same time" theory -- and just relax with one pole.
This evening was the pinnacle of my recent "hot streak" -- I hit the water at my local fishing hole at about 6:30 PM -- and before 7 PM I had hit 4 eater sized cats between 13-15 inches (I threw them back), and a couple cute little baby cats. After moving spots and swatting away a dozen or so Bluegill -- I finally ran into my first LMB of the night. He was not very big, only about 14 inches, but he put up a different kind of fight on my ultralight than did all of the cats that I have been into the last week or so....So that was a fun catch.
After playing around with a couple of more kitties and 1 more LMB -- all around 11-12 Inches...The sun had finally gone down enough for me to kick on over to my "secret" crappie hole. Within about 15 minutes I had pulled about 4 or 5 decent crappies between 10-12 inches and then 2 more respectable around 13, and the last at about 13 1/2 inches. About this time my daughter rode up on her bike and wonder what the bank tanglers were all converging around....She snapped a couple of these pictures and then went on her way.
Since the part of the lake I was on is only about 3 surface acres, I got a kick out of watching the bank tanglers try to move spots every five minutes as soon as I would vacate an area. A few of them must have thought I was using magic bait or something, because they yelling at me to ask what I was using.
The funny thing was, even though this is a live bait state, and the last few weeks I have been going through live minnows like crazy -- I had not planned on going fishing today, so I had not stopped and got any bait....The only thing I was using today was a package of stale "magic minnows" that I had purchased while I was in Utah a few months ago and a couple of tube jigs. Goes to prove that when the fish want to bite -- and you are in parts of a lake where nobody else can reach
that it really does not matter what bait you use.Nice bonus trip this week -- I may try again tomorrow night.
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